How do I create boxplots of defined size?

Hello!

I know that the total size of a figure can be determined by setting the 'PaperSize' and 'PaperPosition' properties. The size of the plots as they are framed by the axes can be adjusted by drawing axes with defined position.

axes('Position',[left bottom width height]);

However, I have found that this does not work for boxplots, i.e. boxplots cannot be drawn in predefined axes - as soon as the boxplot command is called, matlab draws new axes of different position. Can anyone tell me how I can obtain boxplots of defined size?

PS: the axes defined in boxplot(axes('Position',[left bottom width height]),data) are also overruled by the boxplot routine, so this is also not a solution.

Thanks, Franzi

[Sean de Wolski]

In response to your edit (please comment with changes in the future so that we can see them)

It works for me:

figure
hAx = axes('Units','normalized','Position',[0.1 0.1 0.4 .8]);
boxplot(hAx,randn(100,25));

[Franziska]

Thanks for the fast answer. However, determining the size of the boxplot with boxplot(axes,data) does not work properly. I send a piece of code that should generate a figure which consists of 2 subplots with the same size. However, these subplots are obviously not identical.

%% code

clear; close all;

% sample data

data=randn(100,10);

% boxplot

figure; set(gcf,'Units','inch'); set(gcf, 'PaperPositionMode', 'manual');

xSize=5; ySize=2.5;

set(gcf, 'PaperSize', [xSize ySize]); set(gcf,'PaperPosition',[0 0 xSize ySize]); set(gcf,'Position',[0 0 xSize*2 ySize*2]);

boxplot(axes('Position',[0.1/xSize 0.1/ySize 2.3/xSize 2.3/ySize]),data);

axes('Position',[2.6/xSize 0.1/ySize 2.3/xSize 2.3/ySize]); plot(0.1:0.1:4,sin(0.1:0.1:4));

% print

print(gcf,'-depsc','~/Desktop/boxplotSizeIssue.eps');

[Sean de Wolski]

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Answer 1

[Sean de Wolski]

If you go to the documentation for boxplot:

doc boxplot

The third options is:

• boxplot(axes,X,...)

Here you specify the axes handle on which to plot the boxplot:

hAx = axes(blah blah blah);
boxplot(hAx,blah blah blah);

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In that case, manually resize the axes after creating the boxplot:

ax = findall(gcf,'type','axes');
set(ax(2),'position',[0.1/xSize 0.1/ySize 2.3/xSize 2.3/ySize])